‘On thin ice’: UN chief sounds alarm over rapid Himalayan glacier melt

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“Record temperatures have meant record glacier melt,” he said. “Nepal today is on thin ice – losing close to one-third of its ice in just over thirty years. And your glaciers have melted 65 per cent faster in the last decade than in the one before.”.   Click here to read the story.   Click the following link for more information on Climate and Severe Weather.